Kolkata Zonal Centre
Kolkata Zonal Centre (KZC) is a Zonal Centre of CSIR-NEERI and is situated in Sector C of East Kolkata Area Development Project (EKADP) area in Kolkata. The centre is an integral part of CSIR-NEERI’s spectrum of activities. It is a stand-alone facility in Eastern India and also acts as a supporting arm to CSIR-NEERI Headquarteri n Nagpur and other Zonal Centres of CSIR-NEERI located in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai. KZC’s core competence and major thrust areas encompass the followings:
Air Quality/Air Pollution/Atmospheric Science
- Ambient/ Indoor/ Workplace/fugitive air quality monitoring and assessment
- Ambient air quality compliance studies as per new National Ambient Air Quality Standards of CPCB
- Emission Inventory
- Monitoring of trace air pollutants
- Atmospheric modelling and Climate Change Studies
- Stack emission monitoring
- Evaluation of air pollution control systems
Source Apportionment and Carrying Capacity Studies
- Source apportionment of air pollutants
- Carrying capacity studies of protected areas, cities and urban agglomerations
Water Pollution/Water Management
- Assessment of water quality and pollution in lentic and lotic ecosystems
- Quality assessment of grey water, sewage, effluents and leachate
- Groundwater quality assessment and health impact assessment
- Evaluation of water treatment plants
- Water Footprint assessment
Environmental Health/Toxicogenomics
- Assessment of health impacts of pollution in populations by using biochemical and genomic tools
- Exposure to environmental contaminants and allied health risk assessment
- Development of biomarkers and gene-based markers for assessing toxicological effects of environmental agents/stressors/toxicants at the molecular level in populations
- Population-based studies to understand genetic susceptibility to environmentally induced disease/phenotype risk
Soil Contamination
- Soil quality/ fertility/contamination assessment
- Utilization of solid waste/sludge in agriculture
Other areas in Environnemental Science and Technology
- Environmental audit of mining and other developmental projects
- Biodiversity assessment
- Study of carbon footprint of various projects and developmental activities
- Studies on impact of mining, developmental and other anthropogenic activities on environment
- Organization of customized training programmes on air and water quality, biological monitoring of water and benthos
